The Russian-backed prime minister of Crimea said on Saturday that Vladimir Putin should be made president of Russia for life and that the Soviet Union would never have collapsed had Putin been in charge.

Sergei Aksyonov, marking the third anniversary of the day he signed off on Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula, said Russia needed continuous strong leadership to contend with multiple external threats.

"If our president Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin) was in charge of things when the Soviet Union existed, the Soviet Union would not have fallen apart," said Aksyonov, who said a few days ago that Russia needed a monarchic style of government.

"Vladimir Vladimirovich must be president for life," Aksyonov told the Rossiya 24 channel.

On 19 May 2014 Pushilin became the self-declared Chairman of the Supreme Soviet (Speaker of parliament) of the Donetsk People's Republic, and therefore, under the draft Constitution adopted on May 15, the self-declared republic's head of state.

"For the first time in the Russian army’s history the Airborne Forces’ three large units were simultaneously alerted as part of the drills and partly redeployed to Crimea with weapons and equipment," said Serdyukov, who is in charge of the manoeuvres.

More than 2,500 paratroopers and some 600 pieces of equipment are involved in the drills.

Servicemen from Novorossiysk, Kamyshinsk and Ulan Ude units, as well as the fourth army of the Aerospace Forces and Air Defense Forces of the Southern military district take part in the exercises.

During the drills, the troops will train to conduct operations "as part of a group of rapid reaction forces" against terrorists and regular forces of a simulated enemy, Serdyukov said.

The exercises are held in the new format in Crimea due to the "increased terrorist threat and also a broad range of use of the Airborne Forces as rapid reaction forces to solve crises in various regions of the world," he said.

The servicemen will be tasked to take under control crucial facilities, practice amphibious landing and airdrops, and also firing during the offensive and defensive operations.

Lukashenka demands to allow NATO observers to exercises in Russia and Belarus

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the joint Russian-Belarusian exercise "West-2017", which will be held in the fall on Belarusian territory, should be accessible for observation of international organizations, including NATO.

"The forthcoming event is absolutely transparent, and I demand from all of you that this event in the territory of our country be transparent and all events are accessible not only to our friends in the CSTO, the UN, the CIS, but also to the representatives of the North Atlantic bloc - NATO," - Said Lukashenko, taking with the report the leadership of the power bloc.

"We do not hide anything and should not hide it." If the NATO members want to attend our teaching, you are welcome, especially since I already receive such information and such signals, "the president said.

According to the Belarusian leader, "we do not close ourselves from anyone." He stressed that everyone will be invited to the maneuvers, who will be able to be convinced of their exclusively defensive character. "Neither we nor the Russian Federation in this direction are going not to attack someone, we are not going to provoke anyone here, just in case we are preparing to ensure our security in any situation," Lukashenko said.

Ukrainian Nazis continue to destroy the Russian banks ... They draw the symbol of the Azov battalion ... the swastika ... Any patriot of Ukraine has to break something in their own country ... Break,smash,destroy means to be a Patriot of Ukraine ... Next we hear Nazi chants and slogans

Lukashenka: Belarus is not going to curtail military cooperation with Russia

Belarus is not going to curtail its military cooperation with Russia over certain disagreements in other fields, Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka said on Monday.

“Oil, gas, food and other issues in our relations are solvable. These are the issues of Belarus and Russia. However, it is inadmissible to be careless about the security and defense of our common borders,” the Belarusian leader stressed.

In his words, the international situation is such that the armed forces do their best to improve skills and raise the level of training of the regional Belarus-Russia taskforce for the protection of the western borders of the Union State.

In his opinion, the forthcoming joint strategic army exercise West 2017 is the best way to test the readiness of soldiers of the two countries for interaction.

“In case of a conflict or, God forbid, a war the Belarusian Armed Forces will use a certain battle scenario and will be immediately enforced by the corresponding army units from the Russian Federation. We have always believed that you need to keep powder dry in peacetime,” Alyaksandr Lukashenka added.

Looks likely Ukraine will ban Russian Eurovision singer for visit to Crimea and Russia will not send a replacement performer.

Shame. Russia got what it wanted.

The Russian girl singer in the disabled person ... Dangerous enemy of Ukraine ... is threat of national security of Ukraine ... Really shame... For Ukraine and its westernized values ... This competition Eurovision absolutely lost the sense ... Now this competition becomes Politvision

I think this is a bad idea ... To conduct a competition in a poor country whose economy is experiencing a default and the country experiences a 3-year civil war and kills its own citizens daily ... Pensioners do not receive pension and are doomed to starve

The singer is charged with illegally crossing the state border of Ukraine in 2015.

The Security Service of Ukraine has prepared a decision on the ban on entry into the country participant of Eurovision-2017 from Russia Yulia Samoilova. This was reported by the head of the SBU Vasily Hrytsak at a briefing on Monday, March 20.

On Sunday it was reported that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) postponed the third review of its loan program to Ukraine. According to sources, the decision was surprising and was provoked by a decision by the Ukrainian government to suspend cargo transportation with Donbass areas not controlled by Kiev.

One of the signs of an impending war would be the US flooding eastern Europe with troops. ;/
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New U.S.-led force to deter Russia in Poland from April

A U.S.-led battalion of more than 1,100 soldiers will be deployed in Poland from the start of April, a U.S. commander said on Monday, as the alliance sets up a new force in response to Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea.

More than 900 U.S. soldiers, around 150 British personnel and some 120 Romanian troops will make up the battlegroup in northeastern Poland, one of four multinational formations across the Baltic region that Russia has condemned as an aggressive strategy on its frontiers.

"This is a mission, not a cycle of training events," U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Steven Gventer, who heads the battlegroup, told a news conference. "The purpose is to deter aggression in the Baltics and in Poland ... We are fully ready to be lethal."

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